A feeling or emotion from a character.

An internal thought from a character.

It slows down the story

It propels the story forward

It makes your story longer.

The quotation marks surround the speaker’s exact words and punctuation.

Each change of speaker equals a new paragraph.

The spoken words should be written in italics.

The spoken words are capitalized and punctuated normally.

New Speaker = New Line

Put quotation marks around what the character is saying

Use dialogue tags to show who is speaking and how they are speaking

Never press enter. We want one big block paragraph.

Start a new paragraph

Continue on the same line

Add more dialogue

Change the speaker

"You'll never find out" she said.

"You'll never find out," she said.

"you'll never find out," she said.

"You'll never find out", she said.

"stop talking!!" the teacher shouted.

"Stop talking," the teacher shouted.

"Stop talking!" the teacher shouted.

"Stop talking." the teacher shouted.

He is telling the truth

He is nervous

He is confident

He is angry